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Uncle Wiggily and The Pirates 

or 

HOW THE ENEMY CRAFT OF PIRATE FOX WAS SUNK 

and 

THE BOB CAT NEARLY SPOILED A NUTTING PARTY 

also 

UNCLE WIGGILY AND NURSE JANE GATHER MAY FLOWERS 



TEXT BY 

HOWARD R. GARIS 

Author of THREE LITTLE TRIPPERTROTS AND BED TIME STORIES 

• ,“** PICTURED BY 

LANG CAMPBELL 

NEWARK, N. J. 

CHARLES E. GRAHAM & CO. 


NEW YORK 



24 - 13178 


IF YOU LIKE THIS FUNNY LITTLE PICTURE ROOK ABOUT THE 
RUNNY RABBIT GENTLEMAN YOU MAY BE GLAD 
TO KNOW THERE ARE OTHERS. 


So if the spoon holder doesn’t go down cellar and take the coal shovel away 
from the gas stove, you may read 


1 UNCLE WIGGILY’S AUTO SLED. 

2 UNCLE WIGGILY’S SNOW MAN. 

3 UNCLE WIGGILY’S HOLIDAYS. 

4 UNCLE WIGGILY’S APPLE ROAST. 

5 UNCLE WIGGILY’S PICNIC. 

6 UNCLE WIGGILY’S FISHING TRIP. 

7 UNCLE WIGGILY’S JUNE BUG FRIENDS. 

8 UNCLE WIGGILY’S VISIT TO THE FARM. 

9 UNCLE WIGGILY’S SILK HAT. 

10 UNCLE WIGGILY, INDIAN HUNTER. 

11 UNCLE WIGGILY’S ICE CREAM PARTY. 

12 UNCLE WIGGILY’S WOODLAND GAMES. 

13 UNCLE WIGGILY ON THE FLYING RUG. 

14 UNCLE WIGGILY AT THE BEACH. 

15 UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE PIRATES. 

16 UNCLE WIGGILY’S FUNNY AUTO. 

17 UNCLE WIGGILY ON ROLLER SKATES. 

18 UNCLE WIGGILY GOES SWIMMING. 



Every book has three stories, including the title story. 


Made in U. S. A. 



HIS-MARK 


Copyright 1919 McClure Newspaper Syndicate. Trade mark registered. 
Copyright 1920, 1922, 1924 Charles E. Graham & Co., Newark, N. J., and New York. 

JUN “5 74 

©C1A7915738 




1 Once upon a time Curly and Floppy Twistytail, the two piggie 
boys, thought they would play the game of Pirate. They whittled out 
some wooden swords and made a wooden raft. On the raft they set 
sail across the duck pond ocean. “We’ll sail over to Uncle Wiggily’s 
bungalow and capture him,” grunted Curly. “What do we do after we 
capture him?” asked Floppy. “Hold him for a ransom,” said Curly. 
























2. Uncle Wiggily, standing on shore, was surprised when the two 
piggie boys leaped off their raft and captured him. “What’s all this, 
boys?” he asked, twinkling his pjnk nose. “We are Pirates and we 
have captured you,” grunted Floppy. “And you can't get away until 
you pay us a ransom of ten lollypops!” squealed Curly. So they tied 
Uncle Wiggily to the mast. The bunny gentleman laughed at the fun. 




























3. The Fox and Wolf, hidden on shore, watched Curly ana Floppy 
playing at being Pirates and capturing Uncle Wiggily. “We could do 
that,” growled the Wolf. “Do what?” asked the Fox. “Dress up and 
pretend to be Pirates,” answered the Wolf. “Those pigs will soon tire 
of the game. We can take their raft, sneak up and get Uncle Wiggily. 
He’ll think it is all in fun and, before he knows it, we’ll have him!” 












4. The Wolf was right. In a little while Curly and Floppy let Uncle 
Wiggily go, for the piggie boys became tired of playing the Pirate 
game. Uncle Wiggily gave them lollypops for a ransom. Then, 
while the piggie boys went to play ball, and while Uncle "Wiggily was 
asleep on the shore, the Fox and Wolf, dressed like Pirates, and pre¬ 
tending to be friendly animal boys, sneaked up to capture the bunny. 


















5 Before Uncle Wiggily was quite awake, the Fox and Wolf had 
caught him and dragged him on the piggie boys’ raft which the bad 
animals took. “Ha! Ha!” laughed Uncle Wiggily, when he saw what 
had happened. “This is a good joke! You look just like real pirates, 
Curly and Floppy But why have you put on false faces? You didn’t 
do that at first. -Come, we’ve had enough fun! Let’s go ashore!” 










6. After a while Curly and Floppy grew tired of playing ball. They 
went down to the shore of the duck pond ocean to get their raft once 
more, but it was gone. “Oh, look!” squealed Floppy. “The Fox and 
Wolf have taken our raft. They dressed up as Pirates, like us, and 
have captured Uncle Wiggily! What shall we do?” Curly looked at 
the boat on shore. “To the rescue! We must sink the enemy craft!” 






















7. No sooner said than done! Into the boat jumped Curly and 
Floppy. “We’ll make believe this piece of stove pipe is a cannon,” 
said Floppy. “And we’ll use cabbages, turnips and carrots for cannon 
balls!” His brother said that was a good idea, and off they started 
after the raft, which the Fox and Wolf were sailing away, taking Uncle 
Wiggily with them. By this time the bunny knew he was in danger. 
















8. Straight toward the pirate raft went the boat. “Surrender!” cried 
Floppy. “Give us back Uncle Wiggily or we’ll sink you!” The Fox 
and Wolf rushed wildly about. “We ought to have guns!” howled the 
Fox “Well, we haven’t any!” snarled the Wolf. Floppy blew talcum 
powder through the stove pipe cannon and threw cabbages, turnips 
and carrots until the Fox and Wolf were ready to jump overboard. 







































9. One big cabbage hit the mast -of the raft and broke it. A lot of 
turnips knocked apart the craft of the Pirate Fox and Wolf. Into the 
water leaped the bad chaps, hit all over with sharp carrots. “We’ll 
save you, Uncle Wiggily! We’ll save you!’’ called Floppy and Curly. 
They took the rabbit gentleman into the boat with them and rowed him 
safely to shore, while the Fox and Wolf clung to the broken raft. 











And if the grasshopper doesn’t tickle the fountain pen under the chin and make 
it spill ink on the cocoanut cake, the next pictures 
and story will tell how 



J 


IT’S LOTS OF FUN TO GATHER 
NUTS AND ROAST THEM AT A FIRE. BUT 
WHEN THEY FALL UPON YOUR HEAD IT’S TIME THEN TO RETIRE. 






















1. One day Johnnie and Billie Bushytail, the squirrel boys, ran over 
to Uncle Wiggily’s hollow stump bungalow. “Please come nutting 
with us, Uncle Wiggily!” chattered the squirrels. “The nuts ate late 
this year. We’ll find the trees loaded.” So while Uncle Wiggily held 
His tall silk hat beneath a chestnut tree, the squirrel boys knocked 
nuts into it. “We’ll have a nut party!” laughed the bunny gentleman. 



























2. “We ought to have more than one kind of nuts at a party!” cried 
Johnnie, when the bunny’s hat was nearly full. “1 know where there’s 
a hazel bush!” said Billie. “Let’s go there!” proposed Uncle Wiggily. 
And when the three friends reached the hazel nut bush, the wind was 
blowing so hard that it blew the nuts off the bush and into the bunny’s 
hat, and the caps of the squirrel chaps. It was Jolly fun! 


















3. “Haven’t we enough nujts now for a little party ?” asked Johnnie. 
“I think so,” answered Uncle Wiggily. “We’ll make a little camp fire 
on a big rock in the woods, and roast the chestnuts. The hazel nuts 
do not need roasting.” Soon a jolly party was gathered around the 
camp fire. Just then along came the sneaky Bob Cat. “Oh ho!” said 
the Bob Cat to himself, “I guess Ill have’ some ears to nibble now!” 

















4. All of a sudden, while Uncle Wiggily and the squirrels were roast¬ 
ing the nuts, up sprang the Bob Cat. Before the bunny could do any¬ 
thing he was caught and tied in a wild grape vine, and so were the 
squirrel boys. “I’ll take you off to my den,” said the bad Bob Cat, 
“and I’ll nibble your ears when I get you -there!” Uncle Wiggily 
begged and pleaded, but the Bob cat would not let him loose. Oh, dear! 










5. On his way to his den the Bob Cat led Uncle Wiggily and the two 
squirrels beneath a horse chestnut tree. Then Johnnie had an idea. He 
quickly whispered to Uncle Wiggily while the Bob Cat was looking the 
other way. Then the squirrel boy said: “Oh, Mr. Bob Cat, here are 
some fine big nuts! Wouldn’t you like us to get you some of these nuts 
before you nibble our ears?” The Bob Cat said he thought he would. 























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6. If you loosen us we’ll climb, up and get you some great big horse 
chestnuts!” chattered the squirrels to the Bob Cat. They didn’t tell 
him horse chestnuts weren’t good to eat. “Very well,” snarled the Bob 
Cat. “I’ll loosen you long enough to have you get me some nuts. But 
I’ll tie Uncle Wiggily fast to the tree trunk,” and this was done. 
“We’ll jiggle nuts on the Bob Cat,” said Billie to Johnnie, whispering. 
















7. All of a sudden, when the Bob Cat was right under big clusters of 
the sharp, stickery nuts, the squirrel boys began shaking down the 
horse chestnuts. “Bing! Bang! Bung!” they fell all over the Bob Cat, 
pricking him like a dozen pin cushions. “Stop! Stop! That’s enough!” 
howled the bad chap. But Johnnie and Billie danced the harder, send¬ 
ing down more prickery nuts to stick the Bob Cat. None hit the bunny. 


































8. Johnnie and Billie shook down so many of the big horse chestnuts 
in their stickery green husks, that the Bob Cat was covered almost 
over his head. Every time the Bob Cat moved and tried to get out 
from beneath the nuts, they only pricked him the harder. “Oh, wow!” 
howled the bad chap! “Come on!” cried Johnnie to Billie as they 
scrambled down the tree. “Let’s untie Uncle Wiggily and run!” 




















9. While the Bob Cat was trying to crawl out from beneath the pile 
of stickery horse chestnuts, Johnnie and Billie quickly loosened the 
grape vine ropes from around Uncle Wiggily. None of the sharp nuts 
had fallen on the bunny gentleman. “Good-bye, old Bob Cat!” cried 
the squirrel boys, as they tossed a few more nuts on the pile, to make 
sure the bad chap wouldn’t get out and chase them. But he couldn’t! 









And if the egg beater doesn’t try to turn the rubber plant into an umbrella for 
the gold fish, the next pictures and story 
will tell how 



UNCLE WIGGILY WENT ONE DAY, HIS BASKET 
TO FILL WITH FLOWERS OF MAY. AND, THOUGH HE 
GATHERED BLOSSOMS BRIGHT, HE ALSO HAD A TERRIBLE FIGHT. 








1. One day Uncle Wiggily invited Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy to come 
with him to the woods. “We shall gather a basket of May flowers,” 
said the bunny rabbit. “Yes, and I 'suppose I shall catch cold and 
have the sniffle-snuffles,” laughed the muskrat lady housekeeper. 
“But, come along. Perhaps we shall have some adventures.” So, in 
the woods, the bunny gentleman and Nurse Jane gathered flowers. 





























2. “I see some red flowers over here,” said Nurse Jane, after a time. 
“I’m going to pick them.” She moved away from Uncle Wiggily. But 
while the bunny was filling his basket, suddenly Nurse Jane came run¬ 
ning back all’ out of breath. “Oh, Uncle Wiggily!” she gasped. “The 
Skillery Scallery Alligator is crawling after me! What shall 1 do?” 
Uncle Wiggily twinkled his pink nose and said: “Let me think!” 




















3. Surely enough, while Uncle Wiggily was thinking and twinkling 
his pink nose, along came the Skillery Scallery Alligator with humps 
on his tail. “Well, Uncle Wiggily,” cried Nurse Jane, “have you 
thought of anything yet?” The bunny rabbit quickly jumped along 
with his basket, of flowers, at the same time grasping Nurse Jane’s 
paw. “Yes,” he said, “I think we had better run! Come on!” 













4. But though Uncle tWiggily and Nurse Jane ran very fast, the 
’Gator still came on after them, and at last the muskrat lady said: “We 
shall never escape. You had better think again, Uncle Wiggily.” So 
the bunny rabbit did. He saw an old stump, covered with toad stools. 
“I’ll make myself look like a :stump,” he said to Nurse Jane, “and 
you cover yourself with blossoms so you look like a flower bed.” 













5. Uncle Wiggily and Nurse Jane disguised themselves, 4 nd only just 
in time. Along came the Alligator. “Well, ,, he growled, “1 thought I 
saw Uncle Wiggily and Nurse Jane, but 1 must have made a mistake. 
All I see is an old stump or two and a bed of flowers. I can’t eat them. 
I want ears to nibble!” The Alligator ambled away and Uncle Wiggily 
and Nurse Jane stood up and thankfully shook paws. Wait a moment! 














6. The rabbit gentleman and Nurse Jane had no more than stopped 
their hearts from beating wildly, than the muskrat lady said: “Hark! I 
think some other bad animal is coming!” And, surely enough, along 
stalked the Woozie Wolf. “Come on!” whispered Uncle Wiggily to 
Nurse Jane. “We must fun again, I think!” Nurse Jane said the same 
thing. “We’re not getting many flowers for your May basket,” she said. 






















7. Suddenly, right in the path of Uncle Wiggily and Nurse Jane 
appeared a pond of water. “Oh, dear me! We’re caught!” cried the 
muskrat lady. “You can’t swim, Wiggy, and we haven’t time to run 
around the pond. What shall we do?” Uncle Wiggily twinkled his 
pink hose. “We’ll wade into the pond and pretend to be water lilies. 
We’ll come out after the Wolf passes. He’ll think we’re May blossoms.” 













































.8. Uncle Wiggily and Nurse Jane waded into the pond, crouching 
down and hiding every bit of themselves but their faces. Their faces 
they held flat on the water trying to make themselves look like pond 
lilies. Up came the hungry Wolf. “Well, I think 1 had better get 
myself some glasses,” growled the bad chap. “I thought sure I saw 
Uncle Wiggily and Nurse Jane, but here are only leaves and lilies.” 














































9. When the old Wolf slunk away, Nurse Jane and Uncle Wiggily 
crawled out of the pond. “1 suppose you’ll scold me, Nurse Jane, for 
making so much trouble with my May basket and getting you all wet,” 
spoke the bunny rabbit. “Oh, not at all! Not at all!” laughed the 
muskrat lady. “I had quite a jolly time! I am all wet and we haven’t 
any flowers in the basket. But we fooled the Wolf and ? Gatqrf” 







































When you have finished reading, this nice 
little book, perhaps you would like to read 
a larger volume about Uncle Wi^ily. 

If so, &o to the book store and ask the 
Man for one of the Uncle Wig&ily Bed¬ 
time Story Books, they have a lot of 
Funny Pictures in and 31 stories—one for 
every ni&ht in the month. If the book 
store man has none of these volumes ask 
him to &et you one or send direct to the 
Publishers, 

A. L. BURT COMPANY. 

114 EAST 23rd STREET 
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